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Mendmark

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Repair-first returns for outdoor gear brands

E-commerce & retailValidateSweden
Active users
14
Paying customers
19

The problem

Outdoor brands refund or landfill returned jackets with small faults that a local repair shop could fix for a few euros.

The solution

Mendmark gives them a simple product that fixes this end to end, priced for small teams and live within a day of signing up.

Who it's for

Small and mid-sized organisations in our home market first.

Market

Bottom-up: ~40k target customers at ~$1,500 a year.

Competition and edge

What people use today

Spreadsheets and enterprise suites that are too heavy for this segment.

Why this team wins

Founders lived this problem for years and already have the first customers lined up.

The team

Elin spent years on the customer side of this problem; Oskar built the technical core at a previous company.

Worked together
1–3 years

About the founder

Elin Lindqvist

CEO & co-founder · Sweden · 6 years of experience

Previously built products in e-commerce & retail for six years; started Mendmark after seeing the problem first-hand.

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